Card register



June 1 1926.

- 1,587,336 L. LICHTENSTEIN CARD REGISTER Filed August 28, 1925 2 Shets-Sheet 1 June 1,1926. 1,587,336

L. LICHTENSTEIN CARD REGISTER Filed August 28, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June 1, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEO LICHTENSTEIN, O1? CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CARD REGISTER.

Applicationfiled August 28, 1925. Eerial No. 53,033.

vided for the reception of the cards in such a way as to expose the upper end of each card whereon is inscribed suitable identifying data such as names, numbers or the like.

Further objects and details of the invention will appear from the description in con nection with the accompanying drawings wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of the register showing a number of cards arranged in overlapping relation;

Fig. 2 is a view partly in section, of the same;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail in perspective showing the manner of forming the individual slots;

Fig. 41- is an enlarged section of the same; and

Fig. 5 is a face view of one of the cards.

The register as a whole consists of a housing 10 comprising a back plate 11 having marginal flanges 12, which housing acts in conjunction with a door frame 13 which is secured to the housing by hinges 14, the door frame being provided with marginal flanges 15 which overlap the marginal flanges of the housing, and the door frame carries a transparent window 16 of glass, celluloid or other suitable material.

\Vithin the housing is located a card rack plate 17 provided with rearwardly turned marginal flanges 18 which abut against the back plate 11 to hold the rack plate in spaced relation between the back plate and the door frame, as indicated in Fig. 2. The rack plate is provided with a plurality of transversely extending slots 19 suitably spaced to provide for the reception of a plurality of cards 20, the upper margins of which are arranged to project above the corresponding slots in nested relation as is usual in structures of this kind.

The present invention is directed particularly to the formation of the slots 19, which formation is best illustrated in Fig. 4. Each slot is formed by slitting the metal of the rack plate and forwardly striking or bending the material below the slit to afford an obliquely disposed lip 21, the ends 22 of which are inturned and merge integrally into the material composing the body of the plate. As shown, the lip extends obliquely downwardly and inward and merges into the plane. surface of the body of the plate at the point 23, which is substantially half way between the slot with which the lip is associated and the next succeeding lower slot which is formed in a similar manner.

Each of the cards 20 is provided near its upper end with the shouldered portions 24, which, when the card is inserted, abut against the inturned end sections 22 of the corresponding lip 21 which thus serve as stops to limit the insertion of the card, so

that the upper edge of the card will remain exposed to view and in position to display whatever identifying data may be inscribed thereon. To facilitate withdrawal of the cards, each is provided near one of its edges with annpwardly extending tab 25, although this feature may be omitted if desired.

It will be observed from an inspection of Fig. 3 that the rack plate at the points 26 adjacent to the ends of the lips presents a plane unbroken surface, so that when the card is inserted, the lower edges of the shouldered portions 24- will rest easily and naturally against the surface of the plate, and against the inturned ends of the proximate lip without bending or flexing or otherwise distorting the card at this point, which circumstance is due to the fact that the lips are struck forwardly in oblique relation to the plane of the plate, so that ample provision is made for inserting the cards without sharply bending or angling them at any point. At the same time, the arrangement is one which. presents an extended open mouthed slot in advance of the plane of the plate, so that the cards may be readily in serted or removed individually behind one another which would not be easily possible if the slots were unprovided with the forwardly struck marginal lips along the lower edges.

he invention is one which may be very easily manufactured, since the slots are formed by merely slitting and striking forward the metal without actual removal of any portion thereof, and at the same time the formation of the lips, in the manner indicated, serves to corrugate the surface in a manner which adds greatly to the rigidity of the plate, and enables the same to be formed from comparatively thin stock without danger of bendin or buckling when in use. Further rigidity is afforded by the inturned marginal flanges of the rack plate which likewise serve to space the parts in proper relation to one another.

I claim:

1. In a card register, a rack plate provided With a plurality of parallel horizontally extending card slots, each slot being formed by striking forward the metal to afford an outstanding forwardly extending lip portion merging at its base into the plane of the plate, and the ends of the lip being inturned and merged integrally into the body of the plate, in combination with a plurality of cards having their body portions entered through the slots and having laterally extending shoulder portions near their upper edges, said shoulder portions standing transversely to and abutting against the inturned ends of the lips, substantially as described.

2. In a card register, a rack plate provided with a plurality of parallel horizontally extending card slots, each slot being formed by striking forward the metal to afford an outstanding foiuvardly extending lip portion merging at its base into the plane of the plate, and the ends of the lip being inturned and merged integrally into the body of the plate, and the rack plate being provided with rearwardly turned marginal flanges, in combination with a plurality of cards having their body portions entered through the slots and having laterally extending shoulder portions near their up per edges, said shoulder portions standing transversely to and abutting against the inturned ends of the lips, substantially as described.

3. In a-card register, a rack plate provided With a plurality of parallel horizontally extendng card slots, each slot being formed by striking forward the metal to atford an outstanding forwardly extending lip portion merging at its base into the plane of the plate, and the ends being inturned and merged integrally into the body of the plate, and the rack plate being provided with rearwardly turned marginal flanges, a housing comprising a back plate and forwardly extending marginal flanges embracing the marginal flanges on the rack plate, in combination with a plurality of cards having their body portions entered through the slots and having laterally extending shoulder portions near their upper edges, said shoulder portion-s standing transversely to and abutting against the inturned ends of the lips, substantially as described.

LEO LICHTENSTEIN. 

